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An Historical Bibliography
of Egyptian Prehistory
Compiled by Kent R. Weeks
1985. The American Research Center in Egypt
xxii + 138 pages. 29 cm
ARCE catalog series 6
Paper ISBN 0 936 770 11 2
Distributed by Eisenbrauns
The bibliography
lists more than 2,500 scholarly works on prehistoric Egypt, including
monographs, catalogues, symposia, and journal articles dating from
the nineteenth century through the 1980s. An introduction surveys
major works on specialized topics and subdisciplines within the
compass of Egyptian prehistory, as well as studies of particular
sites and regions.
Kent R. Weeks is professor
of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo.
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An Archaeological Investigation
of the Central Sinai, Egypt
Frank W. Eddy, Fred Wendorf, et al.
1999. The American Research Center in Egypt and the University Press
of Colorado
xxi + 340 pp. 185 line drawings and b/w photographs. 28.5 cm
Cloth ISBN 0 80781 537 7
Distributed by the University Press of Colorado
Through funding provided by the United Agency for International
Development under ARCE's Egyptian Antiquities Project, a diverse
group of specialists in prehistoric archaeology surveyed and recorded
more than seventy-five archaeological sites in the Wadi Girafi Basin.
The results of this survey have provided important insights into
human habitation and settlement patterns during Egypt's early history.
The work surveys a diversity of site types—camps, cemeteries,
tombs, tumuli, rock shelters, round houses, square enclosures, compounds,
and game traps—ranging from the Middle Palaeolithic through
the Bronze Age.
Frank W. Eddy is professor emeritus of anthropology
at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Fred Wendorf is the Henderson-Morrison Professor of Anthropology
at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas.
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PHARAONIC
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The Luxor Museum of Ancient Egyptian Art:
Catalogue
James F. Romano, et al.
1979. The American Research Center in Egypt
xv + 219 pages, including 169 figures and 20 plates
ARCE catalog series 1
Cloth: ISBN 091 369 630 7
Distributed by Eisenbrauns
The Luxor Museum catalogue describes
and illustrates more than a hundred sculptures, reliefs, paintings,
and objects of minor art from the Theban area, ranging in date from
the Predynastic to the Islamic period, including an unparalleled
assemblage of relief work from the early reign of King Amenhotep
IV, later called Akhenaten, and his queen, Nefertiti. This catalogue,
published also in French (IFAO's Bibliothèque d'étude
95), German, and Arabic editions, remains the most exhaustive survey
of the museum's astonishing riches.
James F. Romano (d. 11 August 2003) was
curator in the Department of Egyptian, Classical, and Ancient Middle
Eastern Art at the Brooklyn Museum of Art.
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Mendes I
R. K. Holz, David Stieglitz, Donald P. Hansen, and Edward Ochsenschlager
Edited by Emma Swan Hall and Bernard V. Bothmer
1980. The American Research Center in Egypt
xxi + 83 pages + 40 plates, indexes, 41 cm.
ARCE reports series 2
Cloth: ISBN 0 936 770 02 3
Distributed by Eisenbrauns
Situated in the Nile Delta about 90
miles north of Cairo, Mendes, covering some 450 acres, was occupied
from the early Old Kingdom through the Christian Era (ca. AD 800).
During the Twenty-ninth Dynasty (fourth century BC), the city became
Egypt's capital.
Mendes I brings together all known maps of the site and its
environs: early examples based on the descriptions of Herodotus
and Pliny the Geographer, maps of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century
explorers, and maps produced expressly for this publication on the
basis of the authors' excavations and surveys at the site, as well
as aerial photographs.
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Mendes:
Preliminary Report on the 1979 and 1980 Seasons
Edited by Karen L. Wilson
1980. The American Research Center in Egypt
xiii + 43 pages + 35 b-w ills; includes bibliographical references;
29 cm
ARCE reports series 5 (Cities of the Delta, part 2)
Paper ISBN 089 003 080 4
Distributed by Eisenbrauns
The second in a series of ARCE publications
on Nile Delta sites, this preliminary report treats findings from
the excavation of a high ridge lying outside and to the southeast
of Mendes' Twenty-sixth Dynasty sanctuary enclosure, which may have
formed the ancient town's southeast harbor. Excavation revealed
that the ridge itself was probably built up by purposeful dumping
of debris of mixed Third Intermediate Period and Twenty-sixth Dynasty
date during the second half of the sixth century BC. Individual
chapters in the report treat the site's stratigraphy and architecture
(Karen Wilson), Third-Intermediate Period through Late Hellenistic
pottery finds (Susan Allen), Mycenaean and Attic ware (Marjorie
Venit), amulets, amulet molds, and other small finds (Karen Wilson),
and a Third Intermediate Period relief fragment of a deity (Victoria
Solia).
Karen L. Wilson, director of the
museum of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, was
field director of the 1979-80 Mendes excavations.
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Tell el-Maskhuta:
Preliminary Report on the Wadi Tumilat Project, 1978-1979
Edited by John S. Holladay Jr.
1982. The American Research Center in Egypt
x + 160 pages + 3 foldouts + 46 b-w plates. 29 cm
ARCE reports series 6 (Cities of the Delta, part 3)
Paper ISBN 089 003 084 7
Distributed by Eisenbrauns
Tell el-Maskhuta was long supposed
to be either the store city of Pithom mentioned in Exodus, or Succoth,
one of the cities along the route of the Exodus. Beginning in 1978,
a University of Toronto expedition surveyed the area with revolutionary
results. Structures identified by a nineteenth-century excavator
as "storehouses of the children of Israel," and dated by him to
the thirteenth century BC, were found to date much later–the
second and third centuries BC. The major settlement at the site
dates from the late seventh century BC and seems to be connected
with the first canal built through the area to carry the goods of
India and southern Arabia to Mediterranean markets.
Evidence developed by the Toronto
excavations suggests that the canal was once as important in world
economics (and as great a cause of international conflict) as the
Suez Canal. The excavations also shed new light on the origins of
the Hyskos and revealed some of the earliest direct evidence of
Christianity in Egypt.
John S. Holladay Jr, director of the University
of Toronto excavations at Tell el-Maskhuta, is professor emeritus
in the university's Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations.
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Archaeological Investigations at el-Hibeh 1980:
Preliminary Report
Robert J. Wenke
1984. The American Research Center in Egypt
xii + 142 pages + 12 plates, maps. 29 cm. Bibliography: pp. 128-41
ARCE reports series 9
Cloth ISBN 089 003 155 x
Paper ISBN 089 003 154 1
Distributed by Eisenbrauns
Located at the juncture of Upper and
Lower Egypt, the site of el-Hibeh was the repeated meeting point
of political unity and fragmentation from the Third Intermediate
Period through the reshaping of Egypt under the Ptolemies. The site
was at various times a large town, a fort, a temple-town, and the
home of a community of priests. This preliminary report on one season
of excavation at el-Hibeh surveys remains from stratified deposits
in two areas of first millennium BC occupation.
Robert J. Wenke is professor of
archaeology in the Department of Anthropology at the University of
Washington.
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The Tomb Chamber of Hsw the Elder
The Inscribed Material at Kom el-Hisn, 1: Illustrations
David P. Silverman
1988. The American Research Center in Egypt
ix + 146 pages + 2 large foldouts; 29 cm. Includes bibliographical
references ARCE reports series 10 (Publications of the Ancient Naukratis
Project 3)
Cloth ISBN 0 936 770 17 1
Distributed by Eisenbrauns
Although a comparatively well-preserved
Nile Delta monument, the tomb of Hsw the Elder at Kom el-Hisn,
thought to date to the early Middle Kingdom, has received little
attention since its discovery by C.C. Edgar in 1910. Only the tomb's
limestone chamber remains; the mud-brick walls recorded by Edgar
(which may have been the remnants of an adjacent room), have vanished.
David Silverman's study of the tomb records the chamber's reliefs
and inscriptions in more than 130 line drawings and plates, produced
in the course of an epigraphic survey of the tomb. The volume includes
early twentieth-century photographs from the archives of the Oriental
Institute that document the lower part of the interior walls, now
much eroded by salt efflorescence.
David P. Silverman
is curator of the Egyptian section at the University of Pennsylvania
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
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Deir el-Ballas
Preliminary Report on the Deir el-Ballas Expedition, 1980-1986
Peter Lacovara
1990. The American Research Center in Egypt
x + 67 pages (including figures) + 17 plates + 5 plans in pocket,
29 cm. Includes bibliographical references.
ARCE report series 12
Cloth ISBN 0 936 770 24 4
Distributed by Eisenbrauns
Deir el-Ballas, located on the east
bank of the Nile, approximately twenty kilometers south of Dendara,
was excavated at the beginning of the twentieth century by George
Reisner, Albert Lythgoe, and F.W. Green under the sponsorship of
Phoebe A. Hearst. These excavations uncovered a large royal palace,
a settlement, and a series of cemeteries dating to the late Second
Intermediate Period and the early Eighteenth Dynasty. The results
of the Hearst excavations were never published, however, and records
of the expedition were inadequate to understand fully the nature
and history of the site. Four seasons of excavation sponsored by
the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, published here in a preliminary
report, revealed a site far larger than the Hearst expedition records
had indicated, including palace complexes, a group of large houses,
and remains of a previously unrecorded ancient settlement.
Peter Lacovara, director of the Deir
el-Ballas expedition from 1980 to 1986, is curator of Ancient Art
at the Michael C. Carlos Museum, Atlanta.
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The American Discovery of Ancient Egypt. 2 vols.
Edited by Nancy Thomas
1995-96. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art and The American Research
Center in Egypt
Catalogue
275 pp; ills. 29 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index
Cloth ISBN 081 096 312 4 4
Paper ISBN 081 587 174 7
Essays
188 pp.; ills. and maps; 29 cm. Includes bibliographical references
and index
Cloth ISBN 081 096 313 2
Distributed by Harry J. Abrams, publishers; available through booksellers
American institutions have played
an important role in the study of Ancient Egypt, yet Americans visiting
their national museums, or Egypt itself, are not always aware of
it. The American Discovery of Ancient Egypt, the catalogue
of an exhibition that toured the United States from 1995 to 1996,
together with a supplementary volume of essays, chronicles the study
of Egypt by American scholars from the nineteenth century to the
present, bringing together masterpieces from major museum collections
throughout the United States.
The catalogue surveys 129 works dating
from the Predynastic through the Meroitic period; the essays volume
treats American contributions to the understanding of Egypt's early
history, including prehistoric (Kent Weeks), Old Kingdom (Edward
Brovarski), Middle Kingdom (James Allen and Dorothea Arnold), New
Kingdom (David O'Connor and Lanny Bell), Third Intermediate Period
and Late Period (Richard Fazzini), Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt (Robert
Bianchi), as well as Bronze Age Nubia (Peter Lacovara) and Meroitic
Nubia and the Sudan (Timothy Kendall).
Nancy Thomas is curator of ancient
and Islamic art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
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LATE ANTIQUITY
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Quseir al-Qadim 1978: Preliminary Report
Edited by Donald S. Whitcomb and Janet H. Johnson
1979. The American Research Center in Egypt
352 pp. + 57 figs + 89 plates, includes bibliographical references.
27 cm. ARCE reports series 1
Paper ISBN 0 936 770 015
Quseir al-Qadim 1980
Edited by Donald S. Whitcomb and Janet H. Johnson
1982. The American Research Center in Egypt
x + 418 pp. ill.; includes bibliographies. 29 cm.
ARCE reports series 7
Cloth ISBN 089 003 113 4
Paper ISBN 089 003 112 6
Distributed by Eisenbrauns
Quseir el-Qadim is the site
of a small port on the Egyptian coast of the Red Sea, east of Luxor
in Upper Egypt. The site was occupied during the Roman period (first
and second century AD) and again, more than a thousand later, during
Islamic times (thirteenth and fourteenth centuries). The town served
as an important link in the international trade network of both
periods, involving Egypt, Yemen, East Africa, India, and, during
the medieval period, the Far East.
These volumes presents the findings
of three seasons of excavation, during which a first-century AD
refuse dump, a Roman merchant's villa, and part of the central administrative
buildings were excavated. A large section of the Islamic town was
also cleared, yielding artifacts ranging from China to west Africa.
The archaeological reports are supplemented by discussions of epigraphic
data recovered during the excavations, a survey of a Roman gold-mining
settlement and shrine 20 kilometers from the port, and a survey
of the mosques in the modern town of Quseir.
Donald Whitcomb is research associate
and associate professor of Islamic and medieval archaeology at the
Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.
Janet Johnson is professor of
Egyptology at the Oriental Institute.
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Greek Pottery from Naukratis in Egyptian Museums
Marjorie Susan Venit
1988. The American Research Center in Egypt
xiv + 210 pages + 85 plates; includes bibliographical references and
indexes
ARCE catalog series 7
Cloth ISBN 0 936 770 19 8
Distributed by Eisenbrauns
According to the Greek historian Herodotus,
the city of Naukratis, situated in the western Nile Delta, was the
only city in Egypt in which early Greek merchants were allowed to
settle during ancient times; it was inhabited from the early pharaonic
period through Late Antiquity. Nineteenth-century excavations at
the site by W.M. Flinders Petrie (1884-85), E.A. Gardner (1886),
and D.G. Hogarth (1899 and 1903), as well as more recent surveys,
have yielded an abundance of Greek painted pottery, now divided
among public and private collections throughout the world.
Marjorie Venit's groundbreaking study
(volume 6 of the Ancient Naukratis Project conducted under the sponsorship
of the National Endowment for the Humanities), assembles all known
fragments of Greek painted pottery from Naukratis in the collections
of the Egyptian Museum, Cairo, and the Graeco-Roman Museum of Alexandria.
The catalogue, which includes more than eight hundred line drawings
and photographs, classifies the fragments by vessel type and style,
links them to examples in other collections, and includes indexes
to the fragments, arranged by workshop, collection and provenance,
shapes, fabric and style, motif, and period.
Marjorie Venit is professor of art
history and archaeology at the University of Maryland.
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COPTIC
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Monastery of St. Paul
William Lyster, with photographs by Patrick Godeau
1999. The American Research Center in Egypt
96 pp. 131 color photographs + line drawings, maps, and plan
Available through ARCE. Copies are also available for
purchase at the Monastery of St. Paul at the Red Sea. All proceeds
on the sale of the guidebook are donated to the monastery.
In 1997-98, ARCE undertook the first
stage of ongoing conservation work at the ancient Monastery of St.
Paul though funding provided by the United States Agency for International
Development. This illustrated guidebook situates the monastery in
its religious context and includes discussions of the Life of St.
Paul, the monastery's history, its three churches, its library,
and present-day monastic liturgical practice.
William Lyster is
an independent scholar, based in Cairo, specializing in Coptic and
Islamic art and architecture.
Patrick Godeau has worked extensively
in the Middle East, specializing in fine art and architectural photography.
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Monastic Visions:
Wall Paintings in the Monastery of St. Antony at the Red Sea
Edited by Elizabeth S. Bolman, with photographs by Patrick Godeau
2002. Yale University Press and the American Research Center in Egypt
342 pp.; 210 color plates, + 85 b-w and line drawings. 31 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index
Cloth ISBN 0 300 092 24 5
Distributed in the United States and Europe by Yale University
Press
Distributed in Egypt by the American
University in Cairo Press
Copies are also available for purchase at the Monastery of St. Antony
at the Red Sea. Royalties from the sale of the book are donated to
the monastery.
In 1996, funded by a grant from the
United States Agency for International Development and at the request
of the Coptic Monastery of St. Antony at the Red Sea, ARCE's Antiquities
Development Project, in cooperation with the Supreme Council of
Antiquities, began the conservation of a unique cycle of thirteenth-century
wall paintings in the monastery's ancient church.
Ignored for centuries because they were covered with soot and overpainting,
the paintings revealed by the conservation effort, completed in
1999, are of extremely high quality, both stylistically and conceptually.
While rooted in the Christian tradition of Egypt, they also reveal
explicit connections with medieval Byzantine and Islamic art.
The paintings constitute the most complete and best-preserved iconographic
program of Christian paintings to come from medieval Egypt. In addition,
newly discovered wall paintings in the church, dating back to the
sixth or seventh century, are published here for the first time.
Monastic Visions includes contributions by art historians,
conservators, historians, an archaeologist, and an anthropologist,
documenting the results of ARCE's conservation effort. The text
includes a full analysis of the paintings, which are reproduced
in full color, and situates them within the artistic, historical,
and religious context of Coptic Egypt and the eastern Mediterranean
region during the Middle Ages.
Monastic Visions was recently
awarded honorable mention in the Outstanding Scholarly Book (Art
category) by the Association of American Publishers, and received
a design and production award from the Association of American University
Presses.
Elizabeth S. Bolman is assistant professor of art history
at Temple University, Philadelphia.
Patrick Godeau has worked extensively in the
Middle East, specializing in fine art and architectural photography.
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ISLAMIC
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Quseir al-Qadim 1978: Preliminary Report
Edited by Donald S. Whitcomb and Janet H. Johnson
1979. The American Research Center in Egypt
352 pp. + 57 figs + 89 plates, includes bibliographical references.
27 cm. ARCE reports series 1
Paper ISBN 0 936 770 015
Quseir al-Qadim 1980
Edited by Donald S. Whitcomb and Janet H. Johnson
1982. The American Research Center in Egypt
x + 418pp. ill.; includes bibliographies. 29 cm.
ARCE reports series 7
Cloth ISBN 089 003 113
Paper ISBN 089 003 112 6
Distributed by Eisenbrauns
Quseir el-Qadim is the site of a
small port on the Egyptian coast of the Red Sea, east of Luxor in
Upper Egypt. During Islamic times (thirteenth and fourteenth centuries)
it served as an important link in the international trade network
of both periods, stretching from the Mediterranean to the Indian
Ocean. Located in the desert, with no agricultural hinterland, all
of the basics for survival had to be imported, and the city's environment
points to a considerable and continuing capital investment, probably
feasible only under the impetus of a strong, imperialist government.
The impression of a humble fishing village is belied by the artifactual
residue of international trade, including, in addition to Egyptian
ceramics, Nabataen pottery, imported majolicas from the Mediterranean,
and quantities of Chinese celadons and porcelain.
These volumes presents the findings
of three seasons of excavation, during which a large section of
the Islamic town was cleared, yielding artifacts ranging from China
to west Africa. The two volumes are supplemented by reports on epigraphic
data recovered in the course of the work, a survey of a Roman gold-mining
settlement and shrine 20 kilometers from the port, and a discussion
of the old mosques in the modern town of Quseir.
Donald Whitcomb is research associate
and associate professor of Islamic and medieval archaeology at the
Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.
Janet Johnson is professor of Egyptology
at the Oriental Institute.
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Mathematical Astronomy in Medieval Yemen:
A Biobibliographical Survey
David A. King
1983. The American Research Center in Egypt
xiv + 98 pages + 10 plates; ills. 28 cm. Includes bibliography (pp.
75-80) and indexes
ARCE catalog series 4
Paper ISBN 0 890 030 98 7
Distributed by Eisenbrauns
More than a hundred Yemeni astronomical
manuscripts preserved in the libraries of Europe and the Near East
attest to an active interest in mathematic astronomy in Yemen from
about the tenth century until the early twentieth century. Many
of these works preserve earlier Iraqi and Egyptian sources that
are no longer extant in their original forms; others shed new light
on the astronomical orientation of the Ka'ba, as well as on the
early history of the institution of prayer in Islam.
David King's study includes a survey
of the history of Yemeni astronomy and classification of sources,
as well as a list of more than fifty Yemeni astronomers, a catalogue
of manuscripts in European and Near Eastern collections, and a brief
analysis of the contents of each work.
David A. King is professor
in the Institute for the History of Science at Goethe University,
Frankfurt.
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A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in
the Egyptian National Library
David A. King
1986. The American Research Center in Egypt
xiv + 332 pp.; ills. 29 cm. Includes bibliography (pp. xi-xiv)
ARCE catalog series 5
Cloth ISBN 0 936 770 15 5
Paper ISBN 0 936 770 12 0
Distributed by Eisenbrauns
The Egyptian National Library (Dab
al-Kutub al-Misraya) contains a vast treasury of medieval manuscripts
still largely untapped by modern scholarship. Among these are some
2,500 manuscripts relating to the exact sciences, mathematics, and
astonomy, which constitute the largest single collection of medieval
scientific manuscripts in the world. For more than nine years, David
King and an ARCE-Smithsonian Institution team worked to catalogue
these manuscripts and conducted detailed investigations of new material
of particular consequence to the history of Islamic science.
David A. King is professor in the Institute
for the History of Science at Goethe University, Frankfurt.
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Averroes (Ibn Rushd): Middle Commentaries
on Aristotle
Much of the fame of Ibn Rushd (AD 1126-1198),
known in the medieval West as Averroes, rests on a series of commentaries
on the works of Aristotle written between 1169 and 1195. These comprise
works of varying length: epitomes, or short commentaries (djawami),
"middle" commentaries (talkhis), and "great" commentaries (tafsir).
Averroes' works were well known in the West in Latin or Hebrew translation,
and they were extremely influential in the development of scholasticism.
Only a few of the commentaries, however, have survived in their original
Arabic.
One element underlying the commentaries
is the recognition of the difficulty of adapting what Aristotle said
in Greek about language and meaning to what is appropriate for Arabic.
Averroes' Middle Commentaries on the works of Aristotle are more than
simple glosses: they are works of philosophical and scientific inquiry
in their own right; Averroes' talkhis on the Poetics,
for example, substitutes satires and eulogies from Arabic literature
for Aristotle's quotations and exempla from classical comedy and tragedy
and by so doing seeks both to help Muslims understand the work of
Aristotle, and to redirect Arabic poetry toward ethical improvement.
These critical editions of six of Averroes' Middle Commentaries
on Aristotle, based on all known Arabic and Judeo-Arabic manuscripts
and early editions of the works, bring together these important works
in the language and idiom of their composition.
The Averroes series is distributed by Eisenbrauns.
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Averroes' Middle Commentary on Aristotle's
Topics [out-of-print]
[Talkhis kitab al-Jadal].
Charles E. Butterworth and Ahmad A. Haridi
1979. ARCE publication 4
53 pages (English) + 194 pages (Arabic), 28 cm.
Cloth ISBN 0 936 770 03 1
Averroes' Middle Commentary on Aristotle's Categories
[Talkhis kitab al-Maqulat].
Mahmoud M. Kassem, Charles E. Butterworth, and Ahmad A. Haridi 1980.
ARCE publication 5
19 pages (English) + 161 pages (Arabic); facsims. 28 cm.
Paper ISBN 0 936 770 04 x
Averroes' Middle Commentary on Aristotle's De Interpretatione
[Talkhis kitab al-Ibhara]
Mahmoud M. Kassem, Charles E. Butterworth, and Ahmad A. Haridi 1981.
ARCE publication 6
15 pages (English) + 132 pages (Arabic); 28 cm.
Cloth ISBN 0 936 770 05 8
Averroes' Middle Commentary on Aristotle's Prior Analytics
[Talkhis kitab al-Qiyas]
Mahmoud M. Kassem, Charles E. Butterworth, and Ahmad A. Haridi
1983. ARCE publication 8
43 pages (English) + 382 pages (Arabic), 30 cm.
Paper ISBN 0 936 770 06 6
Averroes' Middle Commentary on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics
[Taklis kitab al-Burhan]
Mahmoud M. Kassem, Charles E. Butterworth, and Ahmad A. Haridi
1982. ARCE publication 9
24 pages (English) + 208 pages (Arabic); 29 cm.
Paper ISBN 0 936 770 07 4
Averroes' Middle Commentary on Aristotle's Poetics
[out-of-print]
[Talkhis kitab al- Sh'ir]
Charles E. Butterworth, and Ahmad A. Haridi
1986. ARCE publication 12
17 pages (English) + 135 pages (Arabic), 29 cm.
Paper ISBN 0 936 770 08 2
Charles E. Butterworth
is professor of political philosophy in the department of Government
and Politics at the University of Maryland.
Ahmad 'Abd al-Magid
Harridi is professor of Arabic language at al-Minya University, Egypt.
Mahmoud M. Kassem
(1913-1973) was a member of the department of Philosophy at Dar al
'Ulum University in Cairo.
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Fustat Expedition Final Report, 2: Fustat-C
Wladyslaw Kubiak and George T. Scanlon
1989. The American Research Center in Egypt
x + 101 pages + 6 foldout plans. 29 cm.
ARCE reports series 11
Cloth ISBN 0 936 770 21 x
Distributed by Eisenbrauns
Around the sixth century AD, a town
called Fustat (literally, "the encampment") arose beside the fortress
of Babylon, about twelve kilometers south of where the Nile divides
to form the Delta. The city was Egypt's administrative center until
the tenth century, when Cairo was founded as the nation's new capital.
In 1979, dumping of Cairo's rubbish
began in an area of Fustat near the wall of Salah al-Din; this report
chronicles a year's excavation of a section of the ancient city
now buried beneath the compacted refuse, revealing its early architecture,
as well as important textile, numismatic, and written material found
in the course of those excavations.
Wladyslaw Kubiak (1925-1997), a
member of the Polish Institute and the institute's secretary during
the 1960s, was co-director of the Fustat excavations in the 1970s.
George T. Scanlon, professor of Islamic Art and Architecture at the
American University in Cairo, directed ARCE's excavations at Fustat
from 1964 to 1980.
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Fustat Expedition Final Report, 1: Catalogue of Filters
George T. Scanlon
1986. The American Research Center in Egypt
x + 152 pages + 24 plates, 29 cm. Includes bibliographical references
ARCE reports series 8
Cloth ISBN 0 936 770 14 7
Paper ISBN: 0 936 770 13 9
Distributed by Eisenbrauns
Clay filters, which formed an integral
part of ceramic containers for liquids during Egypt's medieval period,
served a utilitarian purpose: to deter the entry of insects and
other harmful materials and to discourage the passage of sediments
contained within the vessels. At the same time, these filters, recovered
in vast quantity at the site of Fustat, often incorporated inventive
artistic designs and patterns that trace an evolution in artistic
styles from the Tulunid to the Mamluk period.
The American Research Center in Egypt's Fustat Expedition, directed
by Dr. Scanlon, conducted excavations at the site between 1964 and
1980. The catalogue of filters, illustrated with more than two hundred
line drawings and photographs, is the first of two final reports
on those excavations published by ARCE.
George T. Scanlon is professor of Islamic Art
and Architecture at the American University in Cairo.
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The Restoration and Conservation of Islamic
Monuments
Edited by Jere L. Bacharach
1995. American University in Cairo Press
ix + 194 pp. 77 ills (b-w). Includes bibliographical refs. and index,
23 cm.
Cloth ISBN 977 424 356 0
Published and distributed by the American University in
Cairo Press
On 12 October 1992 a magnitude 5.9
earthquake shook Cairo, killing more than five hundred, injuring
nearly ten thousand, and leaving five thousand houses destroyed
and scores more damaged. The earthquake brought a new urgency to
the task of preserving Cairo's more than eight hundred historic
monuments, most of them concentrated within the city's Fatimid enclosure.
In 1993 ARCE, together with the Getty
Conservation Institute, the Egyptian Antiquities Organization (the
present-day Supreme Council of Antiquities), and the United States
Agency for International Development, convened a conference to help
bring funding and technical support to the conservation of these
monuments. More than half of the two hundred participants were Egyptian;
others came from United States, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Poland,
Switzerland, and Turkey,
This book, published by the American
University of Cairo Press, presents seventeen papers from the conference–by
archaeologists, art historians, engineers, and architects–that
reflect the diverse disciplines involved in the ongoing preservation
of Islamic Egypt's architectural heritage.
Jere L. Bacharach is professor of History
at the University of Washington, and former director of the university's
Jackson School of International Studies.
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CONTEMPORARY EGYPT
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Arabic Writing Today, 2: The Drama
Edited by Mahmoud Manzalaoui
1977. The American Research Center in Egypt
643 pp. Includes bibliography (Arabic and English)
ARCE publications series 2
Paper ISBN 0 936 770 00 7
Distributed by Eisenbrauns
This volume brings together nine short
plays, translated into colloquial English, that document the remarkable
efflorescence of Egyptian theater during the late 1950s and 1960s.
The plays included in the anthology, intended as both a reading
and a performing edition, are unified by several common themes:
clashes between individuals and impersonal social forces, problems
of rural society, and the atomization of families.
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Mahmoud Taymour
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The Court Rules (Hakamat al-makhama [1940s])
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Tewfik el Hakim
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Song of Death & The Sultan's Dilemma
(Ughniyat al-mawt [1950] & al-Sultan al ha'ir [1960])
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Mahmoud Diab
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The Storm (al-Zawba'a [1964])
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Shawky Abdel Hakim
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Hassan and Naïma (Hasan wa Na'ima
[1965])
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Youssef Idris
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Flipflap and His Master (al-Farafir [1964])
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Farouk Khorshid
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The Wines of Babylon (Hambazlambazaza [1967])
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Mikhail Romane
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The Newcomer (al-Wafid [1967])
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Mohamed Maghout
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The Hunchback Sparrow (al-'Usfur al-ahdab [1967])
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Mahmoud Manzalaoui is professor emeritus
of English at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
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